Directions:Preheat the oven to 350. Line 3 cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a medium sized bowl combine flour, salt, and baking powder. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and combine thoroughly. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sweetened butter and mix until a very thick dough forms. Use a spoon to fold in the chunks then the pomegranates and distributing both evenly. Form cookies by dropping 1 heaping teaspoon of dough on the sheet two inches apart. Flatten slightly then bake until light brown, about 12 minutes. Let cool on wire racks (if you can wait that long) then serve with plenty of cold milk.

*In the past I have a hard time finding high quality chocolate chunks but lately, I have been able to find Scharffen Berger chocolate chunks in both 62% Cacao Semisweet and 70% Cacao Bittersweet varieties at well-stocked grocery stores. I bet they will be even easier to find now that it is the holiday season so keep an eye out!

My thoughts:

Sweet+tart=delightful cookies. I have never seen much less had pomegranate cookies before but I had a bunch of pomegranate seeds (arils) that I had liberated from 3 pomegranates and decided to give it a shot. I am glad I did! The pomegranate seeds keep their bubble of juiciness while the seed at the middle of each aril softens to the texture of baked nut.

This looks fabulous. I'd never have thought of using pomegranate seeds in cookies, but why not? If you can use raisins... Seriously, this looks wonderful and might need to get tried here in the very near future.

I baked these today and they came out fabulous, will bake another batch in the morning since I have enough pomegranate seeds. Whole Foods actually had containers of pom seeds! I got exactly 3 dozen cookies even though I easily ate the equivalent of 6 cookies raw - you must take that into account!!

What an awesome addition to a Cookie! I routinely make Dried Cranberry and Chocolate Chunk Cookies because I love how the tart Cranberries mix with Dark Chocolate, Pomegranates would definitely have a similar effect! I'll be trying this for sure!!

I made these cookies yesterday and they were excellent. One of my favorite cookie recipes now. The cookies have a great softness, but the pomegranate seeds give a nice subtle crunch now and then. The sweet and the tart play off each other well. Thanks for such an awesome recipe.

I just made these for a dinner party this weekend, and they were PERFECT. Liberating the seeds was kinda fun in a nerdy cooking way, but what took the longest was the chocolate- I didn't go out and buy chunks, but used Pound Plus from TJs, which is SO hard to break up. I ended up with mostly shavings and a few chunks, as I used a santoku knife as a blunt instrument (too like 40 min!)... but they came out SOOO good! I pulled them out in 10 minutes and they are still meltingly delicious 2 days later! Thanks for the idea :)

these are INCREDIBLEi had some pomegranite seeds and wante to use them in cookies.unfortunately i ate half the batch already.. but if i eat the rest..who has to know? ;) thanks for the recipe, terrific!

I recieved a whole box of pomegranates from a neighbor and after I shelled them all I had about 5 lbs. (no Joke) of fruit. I've been trying to figure out what to do with all this fruit when I found your recipe. I would have never thought to put them in cookies, but I tried it and it's wonderful! Thanks for the new way to use pomegranates. The little red jewels in my cookies really goes great with the holiday season! I'll be keeping this recipe for many holidays to come:)

I've baked two batches of these (one for Friendsgiving and one for just me and my husband) and they are fantastic! I'm probably going to make yet another couple batches and mail them to my former coworkers and family :) Thanks for the great recipe :D